Andres Luhamaa wrote: > Hello! > When trying to make a simple map of Europe with countries drawn, one can > see that coastlines and country borders are not consistent. > Borders between Finland-Russia, Sweden-Norway, Germany-Denmark finish > somewhere in the sea, to name just a few. Is this a known issue and is > there a solution (coming at least)? > > Simple script, little zooming will help to see better. > > Best regards, > Andres > > Simple script: > #!/usr/bin/env python > import numpy as np > from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > m=Basemap(llcrnrlon=-18.7,llcrnrlat=44.0,urcrnrlon=59.,urcrnrlat=63.2, > projection='lcc',lat_0=60,lon_0=0., > resolution ='i',area_thresh=1000.) > fig=plt.Figure() > m.drawcoastlines() > m.drawcountries() > plt.show() > > Andres: We get the country boundary database from Generic Mapping Tools, so unless they fix it, we won't have a fix. If you can suggest a better database that does not have this problem, I can try to incorporate it.
I guess it is possible is also possible that this is intentional - and the border does extend into the sea. -Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
